Dr. Hienadź Karpienka (Belarusian: Генадзь Карпенка, [ɣʲeˈnadzʲ karˈpʲenka]; Russian: Геннадий Карпенко, Gennady Karpenko, September 17, 1949 – April 6, 1999) was a Belarusian scientist and an important politician in opposition to president Alexander Lukashenko.
Karpienka was the MP of two Belarusian parliaments, he was the lead for the commission on science and technology.
Within two years of becoming mayor, Hienadz Karpienka introduced several local economic reforms, established musical and theatrical festivals, founded a local football club and performed a radical de-sovietization of the city's street names.
In 1998 Karpienka was head of the National Executive Committee, an oppositional shadow government.
A month after Karipenka's death, Jury Zacharanka, one of his closest friends and colleagues, was abducted.